Novice Bs, a little good, a little bad

A pair of 5-1 hockey games spelled both good news and bad news for the South Dundas Novice B Lions in Upper Canada Minor League action this week.

Last Thursday night, January 22, the Lions picked up a home ice 5-1 win against the visiting South Grenville #1 Rangers, but then on Sunday, January 25, they were on the road to Kemptville where they were dealt a 5-1 loss by the B 2 Panthers.

Sunday in Kemptville, Nick Connors scored the lone Lions goal, spoiling Gareth Robinson’s shut out late in the second period. Luke Byvelds provided the helper.

After a scoreless first period, the Panthers went up 3-0 in the second period on goals by Brandon Taylor, Nolan Dulmage and Carter Lemay.

Dulmage counted his second goal early in the third period, and Rhett Mclean made it 5-1 minutes later.

Last Thursday night in Morrisburg, it was goaltender Aiden Hutt’s game as he gave up only one goal early in the third period to Zander Pittman.

Lions Devon Honders (from Cooper McCooeye) and Nick Connors (from Mason Hummel) gave the Lions a 2-0 first period lead.

Three unanswered goal in the last five minutes of the second period put the Lions in the driver’s seat.

Nick Connors kicked it off with his second of the game with help from Hummel and McCooeye, and then it was McCooeye with the goal and Connors providing the assist.

Ben Radley counted the Lions fifth and final goal with 35 seconds left in the second period with Luke Byvelds providing the assist.

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For only the second time in the history of the Morrisburg Golf Club, a woman will be sitting in the president’s chair.

The membership-owned club held its annual general meeting this past Sunday, October 26, at which Morrisburg resident and long-time club member Carolyn Weegar was elected president.

Weegar will take over the president’s duties in the next few weeks from outgoing president Jason Broad who moves to past-president.

The only other woman to hold the office of president was the late Nora Markell.

Lori-Ann Davies was re-elected vice-president in charge of the clubhouse, and Mick Mabo was elected vice-president in charge of the clubhouse property.

Returned as secretary was Candace Jamieson, and Scott Robinson was re-elected greens chair. Linda Henderson remained as the senior representative to the board and Monique Patenaude is returning as ladies club captain.

One of two positions not filled was that of treasurer which was made vacant by the retirement of longtime club treasurer Sean Boulerice.

Boulerice, who has been handling the club’s finances for 13 years, has been instrumental in its success having carefully managed it through lean times and times of plenty.

Sunday, he presented the membership with the 2014, financial report that showed the club in a reasonably good position despite the current down turn in the golf industry.

Tops on the agenda at Sunday’s meeting was the repayment of $6,500 of interest free loans made by members during the 2013 golf season to pay for the rebuild of the third hole green and some reconstruction to the second green.

In 2013, the membership stepped in with loans in increments of $500 totalling $33,000 for the work. The payback plan was based over five years with a pre-determined number of draws for $500 to be carried out each year and one draw to be made for a free membership.

The membership draw was won by Nick Lee who was also one of the members whose name was drawn for a $500 repayment.

As a membership owned club, each fall the members approve the next year’s membership fees based on recommendations of the treasurer and board of directors.

Sunday, the members approved an increase of about five percent per membership category for memberships paid before April 1, 2015. Members who pay their membership fee by December 1 of this year, will pay the 2014 rate which was $563.87 per adult woman or man.

That individual rate for men and women goes to $592.12 until April 1, 2015.

Sunday’s meeting was attended by about 70 club members. It marks the final club event of the 2014 season, and the Morrisburg Golf Course will be closed to play at the end of October.

A hugely successful season came to an end here Tuesday, March 26, for the two South Dundas Peewee B House teams who were battling it out in a five point series for the Upper Canada Minor Hockey League playoff championship.

The two Lions squads went into the series’ fourth game tied at three points apiece, and a 5-2 victory for the B1s coached by Rob Casselman ended it.

The two evenly matched teams played to a 1-1 tie in the first period.

Oakley Beavers (from Adam Lapier) collected a short-handed goal for a 1-0, B2 lead with 4:14 left in the first period.

Casselman’s B1 Lions got it back before the period ended on a power play goal scored by Kendrew Byers and assisted by the Bennis brothers, Jonah and Lucas.

The tie held until very late in the second period when Connor Dumoulin made a nice pass up the centre to the stick of Jonah Bennis who beat first the B2 defenceman and then goaltender Sam Waytowich for the goal.

Early in the third, Casselman’s B1s stretched their advantage to 3-1, on a nice passing play from Lucas Bennis to Jonah Bennis and onto the stick of Connor Dumoulin.

Lapier’s B2s kept it close when they scored off a face off in the B1s end. Brooke Lapier’s shot from the slot beat B1 goaltender Wes Alexander to tighten the game to 3-2. Julenea Barnhartd provided the assist.

The Bennis brothers teamed for the fourth B1 goal when Jonah provided the setup to Lucas.

Lapier pulled his goaltender in favour of the extra attacker in the last minute of the game to no avail, as Kasper Furo found the empty B2 net for the 5-2 victory.

When the horn sounded to end the game, it also ended two hugely successful seasons for the two teams, each of whom were the regular season and playoff champs of their respective divisions, which led to them meeting for the overall UCMHL championship.

Each of the four games drew in excess of two hundred people. The series opened with a 1-1 tie. Casselman’s B1s won game two 4-2 and Lapier’s B2s won game three, 7-3.

In a rare day filled with sunshine, everyone was smiling as the 10 team Garry Shaver Memorial Blooperball tournament went to work, here Saturday, to raise $3,219 for the Dundas County Easter Seals council.

Organized by Barb Hodgson and Troy White with help from their friends, the day featured top notch action which was won by the Barn Muckers.

“We are fortunate to have people like Barb (Hodgson) and Troy (White) who put on events like this for us,” said Deanna MacKillican a member of the Dundas County Easter Seals council. “They really put a lot of work into this.”

MacKillican explained the $3,219 was raised through the tournament registrations, raffles and draws and will be used to assist families who have children registered with the Dundas County Council for Easter Seals.

The annual Garry Shaver Blooperball tournament is the second of three yearly events run by community volunteers in support of local Easter Seals children. Next up is the annual ball hockey organized by Brian and Tracey Shaver in Williamsburg in the fall.

MacKillican explained that numbers are down across the board. “We are down to just the three major fund raising events (the first is the Snowarama in February), we have just four council members on our board and we have probably less than 10 Easter Seals families registered with us.”

She says these are all numbers that the Dundas County Easter Seals Council would like to see increased.

For a number of years, the Council assisted some 16 to 17 registered Easter Seals families and MacKillican is unsure why fewer children are registered.

Easter Seals assists families in a number of ways including financial assistance of up to $3 000 per year, per child to help purchase essential mobility equipment such as wheelchair, walkers, ramps or lifts.

Easter Seals also owns and operates two fully accessible summer camps and offers 10-day summer camp experiences. For children who either don’t want to or are unable to attend Easter Seals camp, financial assistance is available to attend another summer recreational activity of their choosing.

Scholarships for young people with physical disabilities attending post secondary education are also available.

Children/youth up to 19 years of age are eligible for services through Easter Seals.

MacKillican indicated the Council would also welcome some new members. With three of the four living in the Morrisburg area and the fourth from Kemptville, some representation from the north end of Dundas County (the Winchester and Chesterville) areas would be very beneficial.